Hi all, Sav managed to see the black kite again today (Thurs 1 Sept) at almost the same site as previously mentioned in the Waihopai Valley Road. He saw it...
Brent Stephenson
brent@...
Sep 1, 2005 9:59 am
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Hi all, Made a visit to the Plateau Colony at Cape Kidnappers today to assess the stage of breeding of the 2000-odd breeding pairs of Australasian gannets....
Brent Stephenson
brent@...
Sep 2, 2005 7:11 am
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A great find Brent, I just hope DoC's Portland Island Shore Plover task force don't make a detour to Cape Kidnappers and remove this threat to the genetic...
Hi folks, recent locations for Cirl Buntings in CHCH are: 1. entrance to Seafield Park off the access road to Spencer Park (near Brooklands Lagoon) 2. Bexley...
Hi folks, not really a bird sighting - but a freshly dead Scamperdown Whale came ashore at New Brighton last night, and was buried by DoC late this morning. AC...
Since Brian Bell kindly alerted us to the continued presence of the Renwick Black Kite at least 5 out of area birders have seen the bird (including, as it...
Sav Saville
sav@...
Sep 3, 2005 2:40 am
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All the sightings of the South Island BK reminds me that I recently received a 4th hand report of the Waikato Black Kite a few months ago. It apparently flew...
David
lawrie@...
Sep 3, 2005 9:18 am
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Following on from Andrews email, outside the usual site of the Ashey Estuary there was a male bybrid Oystercatcher paired to a Pied female near the atmospheric...
Nick Allen
nick_allen@...
Sep 4, 2005 7:02 am
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I might have missed something here, but how do you tell the difference between a hybrid VOC/SIPO and a VOC in all its various phases? Stuart ... From:...
Stuart & Jane Nicholson
nicholson@...
Sep 4, 2005 9:07 am
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I have just searched Birding-NZ(should have done before!) and found Nick's email to this group of 6 July 2003, as follows - for those with bad memories like me...
Stuart & Jane Nicholson
nicholson@...
Sep 4, 2005 9:31 am
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Thanks, Nick. Put another way, they are like SIPO (i.e. with rectangular tab) but have the variability characteristics below e.g. smudginess. ... and a deeper...
Stuart & Jane Nicholson
nicholson@...
Sep 4, 2005 9:34 am
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Hi all Just to add a little to what Nick has helpfully (as always) provided, and to answer Stuart's question about habitat: In our experience (Sheila's and...
Tony Crocker
tony.crocker@...
Sep 5, 2005 3:01 am
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Hi again Just back from a quick jaunt to Oz. I poked about a few familiar haunts (as a one-time resident of NSW) as well as lots of others I never got to while...
Tony Crocker
tony.crocker@...
Sep 5, 2005 3:14 am
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Just returned from my patch of beach Herepuru to Mimiha . 4 pairs of N,Z, dotterel ,--- pair A 3 eggs , pair B 2 eggs , others with nest scrapes . Records for...
bertha groom
bjgroom@...
Sep 6, 2005 7:47 am
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Hi All, My wife and I decided to watch the sunrise this morning and were rewarded with the view of: 12 white faced herons 8 australasian harriers 5 black...
Will & Rose Parsons
will@...
Sep 6, 2005 7:49 pm
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Hi Bev,Bryan and others, What a neat report about the cattle egrets.The Parakai (Helensville) flock has been struggling to reach double figures in recent...
John Simmons
johnsimmons@...
Sep 6, 2005 9:31 pm
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The following, posted on ProMed on 5 september 2005, should be of interest. David ... Migratory birds: an easy explanation or sound epidemiology? ... Previous...
David Melville
david.melville@...
Sep 7, 2005 3:45 am
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There were 13 cattle egrets in cow paddocks on N. of Ridge Road, near Motukarara this aft. Viewed by Sheila Petch, Filipe Moniz and Jan. Only 1 with a slight ...
Jan Walker
shesagreen@...
Sep 7, 2005 5:16 am
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Did anyone else see that item on TV3 news last night about red-vented bulbuls being sighted in Auckland. I thought Sav and Brent would be on their way north....
Graeme Taylor
gtaylor@...
Sep 7, 2005 7:45 am
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There is article in the NZ Herald today,(pA14), confirming that there is at least a pair around Devonport, stating that DOC is determined to get rid of them...
David
lawrie@...
Sep 7, 2005 8:33 am
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We also saw a Golden plover at Lake Ellesmere, we think it is a new arrival. Sheila, Jan and Filipe. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Sheila Petch
petch@...
Sep 7, 2005 9:31 am
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We also saw a Golden plover at Lake Ellesmere, we think it is a new arrival as it was in breeding plumage, Sheila, Jan and Filipe. [Non-text portions of this...
Sheila Petch
petch@...
Sep 7, 2005 9:34 am
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In the NZ Herald the journalist was writing about the sightings of Red-vented bulbul at Devonport but he published the picture of RED-WHISKERED BULBUL. Ted ...
Ted Wnorowski
twnorowski@...
Sep 7, 2005 11:06 am
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Just before Sav and Brent get up there for a twitch, they'd have to be breeding (or be genuine vagrants) before being "tickable", right? - Someone letting a...
Rachel Hamilton reports that c12 Cattle Egrets have present around Lower Moutere for the past week. Cheers David [Non-text portions of this message have been...
David Melville
david.melville@...
Sep 7, 2005 8:56 pm
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Par for the course. When Annette wrote an article on grey-faced petrels for the Herald, they illustrated it with a picture of a fluttering shearwater. In...
David Riddell and Ann...
Number8@...
Sep 7, 2005 11:18 pm
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Hi Andrew and all, I can't really speak for Brent - he was after all the one that insisted on ticking (rather than eating) chickens - but I'm certainly in no...
sav@...
Sep 8, 2005 12:46 am
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... and when Radio NZ played the Pipipi as their "bird of the week" the picture accompanying this announcement was a (North American) Brown Creeper (Certhia...
Hi all The Air NZ in-flight magazine for September has a feature on Norfolk Is, including a picture of a "friendly muttonbird" (I wasn't aware they were noted...
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